You want us to think of the children? Couldn't agree more

This opinion article argues that calls to weaken end-to-end encryption—framed as necessary to combat child sexual abuse material—lack evidence and would undermine overall security, especially for young people. It contends that real harms to youth stem more from toxic recommendation algorithms and inadequate parental control tools than from encryption, critiques proposals like phone bans and arbitrary time limits, and urges industry-led fixes: reforming algorithms, standardizing strong cross-platform parental controls, and collaborating with stakeholders to avoid harmful, knee-jerk policy responses.